Stocks opened the week on Sunday upward with rising trend of all indices at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges on higher transactions.

The day's trade value at DSE increased to Taka 1263.47 crore from Thursday's Taka 1009.33 crore and the daily trade also rose to 38.89 crore shares from 31.61 crore shares of the previous session.

The broader price DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the day with 9.85 points up at 5844.72. The blue-chip DS30 and the Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 2.21 points up at 2,133.37 and with 0.41 points up at 1327.41 respectively.

At DSE, out of the day's 330 securities, prices of 156 closed higher against 142 losing issues.